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By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution.
"This is an important time," Allison Barber, deputy assistant defense secretary, said, coaching the soldiers before Bush arrived. "The president is looking forward to having just a conversation with you."
The Associated Press is running a story about how a Q&A session with troops in Iraq was a sham, a contrived piece of propaganda to make things look like it's a situation that the US has under control. It seems that they cannot even control their video feeds...it seems that the rehersal went out *live* to the press...OOPS!
"OK, so let's just walk through this," Barber said. "Captain Kennedy, you answer the first question and you hand the mike to whom?"
"Captain Smith," Kennedy said.
"Captain. Smith? You take the mike and you hand it to whom?" she asked.
"Captain Kennedy," the soldier replied.
And so it went.
"If the question comes up about partnering — how often do we train with the Iraqi military — who does he go to?" Barber asked.
"That's going to go to Captain Pratt," one of the soldiers said.
"And then if we're going to talk a little bit about the folks in Tikrit — the hometown — and how they're handling the political process, who are we going to give that to?" she asked.
Gee, has anyone told the President of the USA that he is not wearing any clothes?
The president told them twice that the American people were behind them.
"You've got tremendous support here at home," Bush said.
Less than 40 percent in an AP-Ipsos poll taken in October said they approved of the way Bush was handling Iraq. Just over half of the public now say the Iraq war was a mistake.
Not only is he lying to the public in the US, he is lying to the troops in Iraq!
It's time to take the President's regime down...NOW, before the US public and/or the rest of the world declares war on it!
ttyl
[edit: Listen to the rehearsal! http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?mediaURL=/atc/20051013_atc_teleconference&mediaType=RM ]
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution.
"This is an important time," Allison Barber, deputy assistant defense secretary, said, coaching the soldiers before Bush arrived. "The president is looking forward to having just a conversation with you."
The Associated Press is running a story about how a Q&A session with troops in Iraq was a sham, a contrived piece of propaganda to make things look like it's a situation that the US has under control. It seems that they cannot even control their video feeds...it seems that the rehersal went out *live* to the press...OOPS!
"OK, so let's just walk through this," Barber said. "Captain Kennedy, you answer the first question and you hand the mike to whom?"
"Captain Smith," Kennedy said.
"Captain. Smith? You take the mike and you hand it to whom?" she asked.
"Captain Kennedy," the soldier replied.
And so it went.
"If the question comes up about partnering — how often do we train with the Iraqi military — who does he go to?" Barber asked.
"That's going to go to Captain Pratt," one of the soldiers said.
"And then if we're going to talk a little bit about the folks in Tikrit — the hometown — and how they're handling the political process, who are we going to give that to?" she asked.
Gee, has anyone told the President of the USA that he is not wearing any clothes?
The president told them twice that the American people were behind them.
"You've got tremendous support here at home," Bush said.
Less than 40 percent in an AP-Ipsos poll taken in October said they approved of the way Bush was handling Iraq. Just over half of the public now say the Iraq war was a mistake.
Not only is he lying to the public in the US, he is lying to the troops in Iraq!
It's time to take the President's regime down...NOW, before the US public and/or the rest of the world declares war on it!
ttyl
[edit: Listen to the rehearsal! http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?mediaURL=/atc/20051013_atc_teleconference&mediaType=RM ]
